I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Eric RothI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane AustenStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleNever bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen KellerThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltairePride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander PopeWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranDignity consists not in possessing honors but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
AristotleShame is pride's cloak.
William BlakeThrough pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still small voice says to us something is out of tune.
Carl JungPride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas FullerIt is a living death if one is obsessed by pride ego and anger.
Sai BabaPride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas FullerDesire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sai BabaIs pride the never-failing vice of fools?
Alexander PopeThat which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlinVanity is a mark of humility, rather than of pride.
Jonathan SwiftIt is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert ParkerPride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Joseph AddisonA portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose, many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
HoraceGenerosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil GibranWhat is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William WordsworthNationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric HofferFame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittYou will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
AristotleThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
William BlakeIt was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint AugustineThe truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel ButlerIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinPride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward BeecherWhen their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away, but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are and seem terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.
AristotleIf I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan SwiftLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb ColtonPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiTeachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
AristotlePride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo have pride in your own motherland is important.
Sai BabaThe God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin LutherThe cult of art gives pride, one never has too much of it.
Gustave FlaubertThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeOne may be humble out of pride.
Michel de MontaigneOur vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich NietzscheNothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly which is done in pride.
John RuskinGreatness does not consist in receiving honors but in deserving them.
AristotleHave a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.
Sai BabaThe passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate, they are green and vigorous in old age.
George SantayanaSelf-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin, are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy GrahamIf a man is proud of his wealth he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SocratesThere is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William HazlittI like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham LincolnWhat pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. CioranThere is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold NiebuhrIf across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor W. AdornoA man who is eating or lying with his wife, or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is by Christian standards in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisThe English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHow sweet I roamed from field to field and tasted all the summer's pride.
William BlakeBy rendering the labor of one the property of the other they cherish pride, luxury and vanity on one side, on the other vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James MadisonI'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael JacksonOne of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh BillingsIssues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaSo in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet toast and coffee, and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon, and two bottles of cream soda.
John SteinbeckJesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise PascalSend forth the child and childish man together and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens'Tis pride rank pride and haughtiness of soul, I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Joseph AddisonThere can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George WashingtonPeople that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La RochefoucauldBeing a Barrymore didn't help me other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
Drew BarrymoreThe ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
AristotleThey did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael JacksonVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenMy pride fell with my fortunes.
William ShakespeareThere is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama